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Going It Alone
Via artforum.com
Apr 3
“Making art by relying on your own resources cuts you out from a crowd that is begging for cash to do anything,” says artist Richard Jackson. “Fostering independence in yourself, wherever you are, can be more isolating than working up in the mountains.”
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Marriage Meme
Via hyperallergic.com
Mar 29
With SCOTUS considering the constitutionality of DOMA, Facebook users are showing solidarity for marriage equality through profile pics that riff on the iconic equals sign—with everything from a Rothko painting to a pair of cans of Bud making appearances.
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Basquiat’s Ex
Via artinfo.com
Mar 27
By the time Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alexis Adler broke up in 1980, the then-budding artist had used the walls of Adler’s East Village home as a canvas. Now Adler is revealing these works, along with photos and ephemera, for the first time.
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Please Draw Freely
Via guggenheim.org
Mar 26
In conjunction with its current exhibition, Gutai: Splendid Playground, the Guggenheim has developed a participatory website, Please Draw Freely, which invites users to create drawings in collaboration with living Gutai artists.
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Curatorial Criminology
Via artforum.com
Mar 26
“The Curator’s Office, with its cigarette butts and coffee stains, is like a crime scene, motivating the viewer to uncover the identity left behind by this illusive figure,” says Mark Dion of his installation in the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s More Real show.
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Gunning for Change
Via standard.co.uk
Mar 26
“A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear,” says Pedro Reyes of his Disarm project, in which he turns guns into music-makers. “But if you turn it into an instrument, it’s like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.”
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Art Space
Via smithsonianmag.com
Mar 26
China-born Cai Guo-Qiang, who makes pyrotechnic artworks meant to be seen from space, says he moved to the US because NASA’s here: “I was attracted to anything that would bring me closer to the universe—and the universe closer to me.”
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Asleep in the Museum
Via gothamist.com
Mar 25
Tilda Swinton is performing The Maybe—in which the actress sleeps in a glass box inside MoMA—intermittently throughout the year. The unannounced naps will happen a half dozen more times throughout the museum by year’s end.
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Habitable Art
Via independent.co.uk
Mar 22
A replica of Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth is being built in Munich, but unlike its London counterpart it won’t have art on it. Artist Alexander Laner is furnishing the hollow pedestal as a tiny apartment where one lucky resident can live rent-free.